Re: Extensions and Gecko specific APIs

2017-07-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 26.07.2017 22:23, Karl Dubost wrote: As soon as some people are willing to adopt one of the browser > "lab-style-features" in the open, because well it solves their > issues and plays well with the ecosystem market shares, the the vendor prefix strategy is falling apart for everyone else.

Re: Extensions and Gecko specific APIs

2017-07-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 26.07.2017 23:27, Steve Fink wrote: Doing this at a time of weak market share is... courageous[2]. Remember when the whole FOSS movement started - the market share was about zero. In short: better to have fewer users now with a high quality product ACK. Leave the toys to others. But t

Re: Switching to TaskCluster Windows builds on Wednesday July 26th

2017-07-27 Thread Justin Wood
And with that, new Nightly updates are live to 100% of our userbase. Thank you again! ~Justin Wood (Callek) On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Justin Wood wrote: > As of now we are declaring this work a success! > > We have unfrozen Nightly updates for 10% of our userbase right now. We > plan to

Re: Extensions and Gecko specific APIs

2017-07-27 Thread Steve Fink
On 07/26/2017 10:45 PM, Andrew Swan wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Steve Fink > wrote: This thread worries me greatly. Somebody tell me we have a plan and policy around this already. Please? We might, but I'm not sure what "this" you're concerned ab

Re: [RelEng] Switching to TaskCluster Windows builds on Wednesday July 26th

2017-07-27 Thread Lawrence Mandel
w00t! Well done! On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Justin Wood wrote: > And with that, new Nightly updates are live to 100% of our userbase. > > Thank you again! > ~Justin Wood (Callek) > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Justin Wood wrote: > > > As of now we are declaring this work a success!

(reftest) Renaming reftest-print to reftest-paged

2017-07-27 Thread Tobias Schneider
In preparation of landing proper support to create print tests via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299848 we renamed reftest-print to reftest-paged. The reason for this was that reftest-print is not actually testing real printed output but rather making sure layout is done correct in

New: QA Test Plan Sign-off Requirement

2017-07-27 Thread Lawrence Mandel
(cross posting to a few lists for visibility) tl;dr Starting with the Firefox 57 release, test plans will require sign-off from Engineering, Product and QA before testing begins. Engineering, Product, and QA each have unique insights into risks associated with feature development. We have the be

Re: Extensions and Gecko specific APIs

2017-07-27 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
FWIW, I share Steve's broad concerns here. Mozilla's track record on extension APIs has had many dead-ends and changes of direction. Now that we're wiping the slate clean, it would be good to not repeat history. Nick On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Steve Fink wrote: > On 07/26/2017 10:45 PM, A

Re: Extensions and Gecko specific APIs

2017-07-27 Thread Bill McCloskey
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > FWIW, I share Steve's broad concerns here. Mozilla's track record on > extension APIs has had many dead-ends and changes of direction. Now that > we're wiping the slate clean, it would be good to not repeat history. > I'm surprised it

Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #17

2017-07-27 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Hi everyone, Next week, Nightly will switch to the 57 branch, beginning the development cycle of what will be the last train leaving the station towards Firefox 57. Around 5 months ago, I started writing the first on